![]() Christine Martin (2002) uses the tune as an example of one of the vehicles for a foursome reel, and says "Monymusk" is often used for dancing the Highland Fling. Mary Anne Alburger (1983) also identifies Daniel Dow as the composer of " Sir Archibald Grant of Monemusk's Reel," and adds that when the Gows published it in their 1799 Repository, Part First, they altered it rhythmically (by adding more 'Scots snaps' and smoothing out some dotted patterns for variety) and shortened the name to "Monymusk, A Strathspey." It has since that time been generally known simply as the shortened "Monymusk" or its alternate spellings and variations. Bayard (1981) states that even if there was not one particular tune that was a direct predecessor of Dow's melody, he certainly had access to earlier models for it, for both " Ruffian's Rant (The)" and " Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch" are cognate and contain similar melodic material. Linscott (1939) says the melody was called " Countess of Airly (The)" in the early 18th century, and came from the village of Monymusk, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, although by what authority she makes this claim is not known. Irish music researchers Fleischmann & Ó Súilleabháin, however, cite Joshua Campbell's Collection of New Reels and Highland Strathspeys (1786) as the first publication with the melody. Mary's Hall, Niddry's Wynd, where he had often given his own concerts over the years. ![]() ![]() When he died in the winter of 1783 at the age of 51 he was buried in the Canongate Churchyard a concert to benefit his widow and children was given shortly after his death in St. His compositions were well received in his lifetime and survive today. Dow was born in Kirkmichael, Perthshire, and became a music teacher in Edinburgh where he taught, among other instruments, the guitar. He was musical and was President of the Aberdeen Musical Society, and, according to Graham Christian (2015), "had his tenants taught how to sign harmonized psalms." He died in 1796 in Aberdeenshire. 5), under the title " Sir Archibald Grant of Monemusk's Reel" (Sir Archibald, the third Baronet, founded the town of Archiestown, near Monahoudie Moss on Speyside. The tune was composed by Daniel (sometimes Donald) Dow (1732–1783) in 1776 and first appeared in his Thirty Seven New Reels, c. 'Moneymusk' is the 'Englished' version of the Gaelic words Muine muisc meaning a 'noxious weed or bush'. It takes it's name from an Aberdeenshire, Scotland, baronial estate called Monymusk House, long in the possession of the Grant family. "Moneymusk" was originally a pipe tune or pipe-inspired tune (written within the range of nine notes, in the so-called 'double tonic' tonality). A Major (Ashman, Barnes, Bowman, Brody, Bronner, Christeson, Cole, O'Neill/1850 & 1001, Plain Brown, Surenne, White): AAB (Balmoral, Barnes, Campbell, Dale, Gow, Gunn, Hunter, Martin, Skinner): AA'B (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB (Ashman, Brody, Ditson, Ford, Howe/Accordeon, Kennedy, Linscott, Miller & Perron, Peacock, Raven, Sweet): AABB' (Athole, Kerr, Lowe, Skye): AA'BB' (Cuillerier): ABC (Honeyman): AABBCC (Beisswenger & McCann, Christeson): ABCCDD (Cole): AABBCCD (O'Neill/Waifs): AABBCCDD (Brody): AA'BB'CC'DD (Phillips/Block): AA'BCAA'BC' (Phillips/Miller). USA New York State, Ohio, Michigan, Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Maine, New Hampshire, Alabama. ![]() AKA - "Moniemusk." AKA and see: " All the Lads of Copper Alley," " Countess of Airly (The) (early 18th century)," " Dannsa Gaelach," " Grant of Mony Musk," " Sir Archibald Grant of Monemusk's Reel." Scottish (originally), English, Irish, Canadian, American Reel, Strathspey, Fling, Highland, Breakdown. ![]()
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